Israelis will head to the polls on March 23 – for the fourth time in two years – but were elections held at this time, Likud would maintain a steady lead, Channel 12 News projected Tuesday.
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The poll also predicted that for the first time since elections were called, the Labor party, under newly elected leader MK Merav Michaeli, could scrape by the four-seat electoral threshold.
Channel 12 News gave Likud 29 Knesset seats, followed by Yesh Atid (16), New Hope (15), Yamina (14), the Joint Arab List (10), Sephardi ultra-Orthodox party Shas (8), Ashkenazi Haredi party United Torah Judaism (8), Yisrael Beytenu (7), Meretz (5), Blue and White (4), and Labor (4).
The poll projected that the Economic, Religious Zionist, Israelis, Telem, Tnufa, Gesher, Habayit Hayehudi, and Pensioners parties will not cross the electoral threshold, nor will the far-right Otzma Yehudit party.
The poll also found that 61% of Israelis would rather see the Haredi parties excluded from a future coalition. Only 22% of respondents said the ultra-Orthodox parties should be included in the government.
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